Manraj has done a top-notch job, this poem is incredibly well written. It's clear there has been a huge amount of thought put into the rhythm and rhyme. Not to mention how funny it is, it had us ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

Now, I tend to write funny rhyming poems. But as I tell kids at school visits, not all poems rhyme and not all poems are funny. But you’ve got to give poetry a chance. Here’s the first poem in ...

From saying goodbye to parents on the very first day of school to watching butterflies hatch in spring, D. J. Steinberg celebrates all the landmark moments of preschool. Because the year is full of so ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Listening to the Poem: Enlist two volunteers and listen as the poem is read aloud twice. Write down any additional words and phrases that stand out to you. You can listen to a reading of the poem. You ...

There seems to be an epidemic of loneliness in the world today. And what better way to reconnect on a human level than ...

McTear, a football player and member of the school choir, was “charming, and smart, and funny as heck,” Conner recalled ...

A solo exhibition of the poet and visual artist Ted Joans is a mostly fitting tribute to an artistic visionary.

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

and as a teen won numerous prizes for his poems and short stories. Graduating in 1952 from Meriden High School, where he was co-editor of the yearbook and president of the Future Teachers of ...